He had a massive political transformation in the past 10-15 years from a bog standard left-wing commentator to a conspiratorial nut-job alt-right messiah complex clown, he became a grifter. Left-wingers like Owen Jones saw the change and dropped him, don't think you can blame Owen Jones for his quotes before Brand took a massive turn.
Idk, he plowed a similar path to people like Gabbard where it went from left-wing anti-establishment stuff to the modern American alt-right incarnation but similar themes. There are definitely shared features.
The new cultural, Christian shtick is entirely new I will grant you.
i think i've seen brand as new age-y for a long time? the new age movement is heavily culturally christian. but i've spent too much time in new age/adjacent space in my past, and brand types aren't unusual ime. they're mostly less famous than him
i haven't paid attention to him lately but would point out that pro trump is very aligned with new age stuff? qanon, new age, anti v@x, pro trump and rfk is all sometimes same pipeline. the new age world is full of people who consider themselves apolitical but subscribe to far right beliefs.
i hear you that he's now gone for a different identity to his old, ahem, brand. but i'd imagine he still has some new age fanbase. i remember some speaking out when allegations were coming out about him. the way he'd centered himself, they could allege that it's because a truth-teller, and the establishment were out to get him.
(tho i appreciate it sounds like i've just not paid attention to his most recent incarnation, no regrets)
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u/justthisplease Keir Starmer Genocide Enabler 2d ago
He had a massive political transformation in the past 10-15 years from a bog standard left-wing commentator to a conspiratorial nut-job alt-right messiah complex clown, he became a grifter. Left-wingers like Owen Jones saw the change and dropped him, don't think you can blame Owen Jones for his quotes before Brand took a massive turn.